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Wide Neighborhoods: A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service

By Mary Breckinridge

Book information

Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Year
2021
ISBN
9780813181233, 0813114535, 0813101492, 9780813101491
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (4810612 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-30 17:23:34
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Description

Wide Neighborhoods is the autobiography of Mary Breckinridge, the remarkable founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. It is equally the story of the unique organization she founded in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky in 1925 — the Frontier Nursing Service. Riding out on horseback, the FNS nurse-midwives, the first of their profession in this country, proved that high mortality rates and malnutrition need not be the norm in remote rural areas. The FNS, through its example and through the graduates of tis school of midwifery and family nursing, has exerted a lasting influence on family health care throughout the world.

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